Category: Tofte

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult: the atmosphere of lamps or moonlight.”~ Edgar Degas (source)

A Measure of Light

A measure of light. Most of my work as an artist deals with light qualities and properties of light. Its influence on the subject matter or work depends on the media used, whether an illuminated screen, projected, or printed on a substrate. The quality of light, the white balance whether sunlight, tungsten, or flame figures in the piece. The effects that it produces such as the colors, values, and tones affect the eventual meaning of the work. All of lights properties are considered even those that are outside of the spectrum that the human eye can observe. I can measure it and use it to obscure, illuminate, cast in shadow. I use it as metaphor or fact.

Currently I am studying how light is referred to and is use in the talking about the spiritual realm. I hope that study and its conclusions will eventually present itself in my work as well.

Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is in our picture of particle physics.”
~ Sheldon L. Glashow

Tapestries of Vision

Quaker tradition of community… A picture of particle physics. You often hear that what separates of Quakers from the other religious belief, this that Quakers believe that there is that of God within everyone that Quakers recognize. What I have come to understand is that particle of God that is within is a bit of the same God particle that binds us all together.

The gathered meeting that is sought by members of the Religious Society of Friends is when all those bits and pieces come together and unite in a perfect tapestry during the meeting.

The Quaker like the artist sees that special connection that we all have to the Higher Power and are able to access.

Yes, you will see the grains in my work and those grains represent the life of Gaea coming together and stitching the tapestry of life together.